Sentence examples for oppressive summer from inspiring English sources

The atmosphere becomes as claustrophobic as the oppressive summer heat.

When the air is clear, free of oppressive summer haze, the city can look beautiful.

In the oppressive summer heat, some motorists waiting for a fill-up are getting overheated.

A cauldron of fire blazing near the cocktail tent greeted them upon their arrival in the oppressive summer heat.

This mini mansion, on the other hand, was where the president escaped the oppressive summer heat of downtown D.C.

Set in the oppressive summer streets of London, three women become connected by a psychopath who sends them love letters.

The attachable screens are designed to cover gaps and openings in the incomplete structures, providing insulation and shade during the oppressive summer months.

Egypt is widely considered to be more oppressive today than it was under the deposed Hosni Mubarak.

In the oppressive 1950s, where every play had to be approved by the lord chamberlain before it could be performed in public, British dramatists were necessarily oblique in their presentation of gay issues.

The Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys Rhys's vivid re-imagining of the early life of the first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre follows the Creole heiress from her youth in lush but oppressive 1830s Jamaica through her transformation into English literature's most famous "madwoman in the attic".

However, some monogamous marriages are also oppressive (March 2011), and egalitarian polygamous or polyamorous relationships, such as a group of three women or three men, exist (Emens, 2004).